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    "id": 1130064,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1130064/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta",
    "speaker_title": "His Excellency the President",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 168,
        "legal_name": "Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta",
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    "content": "In respect of roads infrastructure, when my administration came to the helm, there were 11,200 kilometres of tarmacked roads constructed by four previous administrations in 123 years. Like I said, I include the colonisers as well. In eight years, my administration has multiplied what the previous administrations had done by a factor of two. We have built 10,500 kilometres of roads across the Republic and doing so 15 times faster than the previous administrations. And, I will expound on this in a little while. On Railway, on the eve of Madaraka Day in 2017, we marked a transformative moment for Kenya and for Africa, when the Madaraka Express made its inaugural journey from Mombasa to Nairobi. The largest infrastructure project in Africa had become a reality, and a brand-new modern railway had become a feature of our homeland and nation. Since then, the way we travel to Mombasa has been redefined with Madaraka Express having served 6,495,027 passengers; while our cargo gets to the stores of our enterprises efficiently and in time with a record 17.6 million tonnes of cargo transported from 1st January 2018 to yesterday 29th November 2021. Turning to power generation, our acceleration model was applied to the production and distribution of electricity countrywide. When I took the oath of office in 2013, Kenya’s total grid was 1,300 megawatts. But 8 years later, Kenya’s total grid has doubled and it now stands at 2,600 megawatts. This translates to approximately 325 megawatts installed every year under my administration. It means that, for every year we installed 325 megawatts since 2013. The previous administrations installed a combined average of only 12 megawatts per year. Put differently, in eight years we have generated 40 times more power per year compared to the past administrations. Hon. Members, it is worth of noting that 73 per cent of this power is green energy. In fact, Kenya is leading the African continent in the generation of green energy. But this is not the only thing which Kenya is leading the continent. I am proud to report that we have connected more homes to power than any other country in Africa, in just six years. In fact, Kenya is the leading country in Africa with respect to household connections to electricity."
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